Student arrested for threatening US university massacre

MIAMI: Police in the US state of Georgia arrested a female university student who threatened to open fire on classmates, authorities said Monday, as the country deals with a spate of campus shootings. Emily Sakamoto, 21, a second-year student at Emory University in Atlanta, was arrested Sunday after posting the threat online. Sakamoto’s arrest came just over a week after a gunman killed nine people at a community college in the state of Oregon. The message was up for just minutes, but several students saw it and one called 911 emergency services, Emory University said in a statement.